Lay is “shocked”?

With his newly earned title of convicted felon to add to his resume, former Enron Founder and CEO stated that he was “shocked and surprised” at the guilty verdict handed out earlier this week for both him and Jeffrey Skilling. Lay faces a maximum of 45 years for fraud and conspiracy, on top of the 120+ years for bank fraud. Although it’s unlikely that Lay will face ALL of those years as a sentence, at the age of 64, a 20+ year sentence might as well be life in prison.

Oh come on Lay, did you REALLY fool yourself into thinking “I don’t know / I didn’t know” was a rock solid defense against the charges that were laid before you? Heck “I don’t know” wouldn’t even work for me when I was 6. Why it would work for someone who was caught red handed in one of the biggest corporate greed scandals is beyond me.

I hope they have comfy beds where you’re going because that’s a heck of a lot of time they’re handing you.